Device for impressing seals on papers.



No. 888,997. PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

' I. GOTTSGHALK.

DEVICE FOR IMPRESSING SEALS ON PAPERS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1, 1908.

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FELIX GOTTSOHALK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ADJUSTABLE SEAL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR IMPRESSING SEALS ON PAPERS.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX'GOTTSGHALK, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Impressing Seals on Papers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device or machine for enabling a person to impress seals, such as notarial or corporate seals, on papers at any desired location in the width of the latter, and at any desired distance from either the top or bottom edges.

The object of the invention is to produce, for the indicated purpose, a device which is very simple, inexpensive and practicable of construction; one which may be presented in the trade at an attractive price, and one which is susceptible of quick and convenient adjustment and operation for any seal impressing work required. And for the production of a machine of the character and for the purpose set forth, and for the attainment of further advantages which will be hereinafter rendered apparent, the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts and the construction of certain of the parts all substantially as hereinafter fully described and set forth in the claims.

The improved seal impressing device or machine is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure -1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation with a portion at one end broken away for clearer illustration; Fig. 3 is a view at the left hand end of the machine with the inclosing plate, for the chambered upright, removed; Fig. 4 is a vertical cross sectional view on line 4 4, Fig. 1, and Fig. 5

is a fragmentary plan view showing a feature of construction to be hereinafter referred to.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

Proceeding to describe the machine or device precisely as the same has been constructed, and as is represented in the drawings, I will at this time state that considerable latitude of change therefrom may be made Within the invention.

In the drawings a frame is shown comprising a base a, opposite end uprights 5, b and separate upper and lower supporting Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1908.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 413,831.

and guiding bars (Z d, extending at one side of the frame longitudinally between and rigidly connected with the uprights.

The one end upright b is chambered or recessed as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 for the reception and incasement therein of gearing pertaining to the feed screw shafts f The feed screw shafts ff are arranged, in the present instance at the front of the frame extending longitudinally and in parallelism from one upright to the other, and having journal bearings, for their rotative movements, in the uprights.

The feed screw shafts not only are sustained by the frame, but they themselves serve to impart stability to the latter.

Each screw shaft f has a small spur gear or pinion g at the end thereof which is extended beyond its journal Within the chambered upright, in mesh with both of which pinions is a comparatively large spur gear wheel h also within the chambered casing-like upright 6, the same being held at its proper place and supported for its freest possible r0- tation on the central stud i, the shank of which at one end, beyond a shoulder, screwengaging into the upright while the head enlargement of the stud prevents axial displacement of the gear wheel.

-As a means for rotating the gear wheel h and through it both of the feed screw shafts (which are of like pitch, and preferably made with double or triple threads for quick feed movement,) diametrically opposite handles or cranks are provided on and extended endwise relatively to the axis of the gear wheel It, to be operated by a succession of thumb and finger engagements, perhaps more conveniently and with steadier movements than if but a single crank like handle were provided.

A thin covering plate m is screwed on the outer face of the chambered upright 11 for concealing the pinions and also the teeth of the gear wheel it, although this plate has a comparatively large circular central opening indicated at 0, Fig. 2 to give freedom of revoluble movements of the opposite handles j of the gear Wheel it. A hub-like outward extension 2) of slight thickness or exof the closing plate, a finished and attractive appearance is imparted at the operating end of the machine.

A and B represent upper and lower die carrying members having horizontal guide holes or apertures 10, 10, Fig. 4, whereby they have supporting and guiding engagements on the upper and lower bars d, d, of the frame, and they are also at their forward portions somewhat similarly apertured in parallelism and longitudinally of the machine to embrace the screw shafts f; and the die members have recesses t therein from their forward edges and sufficiently far inwardly extended to intersect the screw shaft accommodating holes, in which recesses t are fitted threaded segments or half-nuts 'U, the threads of which are of proper pitch and engagewith those of the screw shaft. These nut segments are held in their places, as shown, by the overlapping portion of the heads of screws to w, the shanks of which have thread engagements in tapped holes therefor in the die carrying members adjacent to the walls of the half-nut receiving recesses.

The lower die carried member B has the die proper :10 fixed thereon and immovable relatively thereto, although, of course, it has a bodily traveling movement with the lower carrying member B, and the upper die carrying member has mounted thereon, and bodily carries, the companion die y which in addition to its movement bodily in unison with the carrying member is movable in a direction transversely of the horizontal longitudinal line of adjustment of both of the carrying members, its stem if playing vertically in a guideway therefor in the carrying member A, being subject to the depressing action of a usual form of cam ended lever 'y ,-the spring y being operative to normally maintain the reciprocating die y in its elevated position when the cam ended lever is in its normal position.

The cam ended lever and retracting spring above referred to in themselves constitute no portion of the present invention, and they may, at the election of the constructor, be substituted by other known or approved die operating means; and instead of employing detachably confined half-nuts in recesses in the die carrying members, the latter members may, as indicated in Fig. 5, have the feed screw receiving holes therethrough screw threaded entirely around their walls for an obvious manner of screw engagement with the threaded shafts.

It will be perceived that in this machine, with the die carrying members engaged with the screw shaft properly in opposition, and with both of the dies proper, 0c and y in axial alinement, they will always. register one with the other irrespective of the fact that they are moved from one place to another along the machine by imparting to'the pair of feed screws their concurrent rotative movements.

This machine, as manifest, permits entire freedom of entrance, in any required extent, of a single paper, or superimposed sheets of paper, between the dies and the positioning of the dies for the seal impressing anywhere in the width of the paper or papers may be most quickly, conveniently and accurately accomplished.

I claim:

1. In a device for impressing seals on papers, in combination, a frame, comprising opposite end uprights, separated upper and lower rail like members extendingbetween and secured to said. uprights, and a pair of parallel longitudinally arranged rotative feed screw shafts, extending, one above the other, between and having journal supports in said end uprights, a pair of opaosed die carrying members supported and guided on the rail like frame members for longitudinal movements, and having engagements with said screw-shafts, one of said members having the die bodily carried thereby transversely movable thereon towards and away from the companion die, and means for operating such transversely movable die, and means for causing rotary movements of the screw shafts in unison.

2. In a device for impressing seals on papers, a rectangular frame or support comprising upper and lower parallel separated bars, opposed die carrying members having both supporting and guiding engagements with said bars and carrying companion dies constantly in register, one of said dies being movable to positions against and separated from the other die, means for imparting its movements thereto, screw shafts mounted horizontally on said rectangular frame and having feed engagements respectively with said opposed die carrying members, and means for rotating both of said screw shafts in unison.

3. In a device for impressing seals on papers, in combination, a frame comprising a base, opposite end uprights, separated upper and lower supporting and guiding bars extending at one side of said frame longitudinally between said uprights, and a pair of parallel longitudinally arranged rotative feed screw shafts at the other side of the frame supported by and extending between the said end uprights, a pair of opposed die carrying members having sliding engagements with said bars for longitudinal movements therealong, and having engagements with said screw shafts, one of said members having its die transversely movable thereon,

and means for operating such die, pinion gears on an end of each screw shaft, a gear wheel, in mesh with both said pinions, having a rotating handle therefor.

4. In combination a frame comprising a base, opposite end uprights one of which is chambered, and separated upper and lower supporting and guiding bars at one side of said frame extending longitudinally between and rigidly connected with said uprights, a

pair of parallel longitudinally arranged rotative feed screw shafts at the other side of the frame having end portions thereof j ournaled in the uprights, and each screw shaft having a pinion gear at an end thereof within said chambered casing, a gear wheel in mesh with both of said pinions, and an axial stud therefor on which it rotates and by which it is supported in the chambered casing, upper and lower die carrying members having apertures and in supporting and guiding engagements on said bars and having supporting engagements about and also screw engagements with said screw shafts, the lower member having a fixed die and the upper member having its die movable vertically transversely relatively to the fixed die and in constant registry therewith, and means for operating the movable die.

5. In combination, a frame and a pair of parallel longitudinally arranged rotative feed screw shafts supported thereby, a pair of opposed die carrying members supported by and guided for longitudinal movements along the frame having loosely embracing engagements about said screw shafts and having recesses therein, of segments detachably confined in said recesses of the die carrying members and having their engagements with the screw shafts and means for causing rotary movements in unison of both said screw shafts.

Signed by me at New York city, N. Y., in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FELIX GOTTSOHALK.

Witnesses H. A. CRosBY, R. B. MARTEN. 

